Authorities in the Russian-occupied Luhansk region of Ukraine raided an unregistered Baptist church during a Pentecost Sunday worship service, an Oslo-based news service focused on international human rights and religious freedom reported.
Brent Leatherwood, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, said his entity had two defunding questions on its plate June 11 as he delivered ERLC’s report to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Dallas.
Together, the newest group of emeriti who gathered at International Mission Board’s annual Celebration of Emeriti near Richmond, Virginia, April 27–May 1, represent 1,818 years of service.
People aren’t lining up to be missionaries in Ukraine right now, as Lamar Schubert has discovered. He and his wife Aubrey work with Slavic people and Eastern European churches, but they had to evacuate Ukraine when war began …
Since 2022, Russia has increased its enforcement of a law that criminalizes “insulting the religious feelings of believers” as part of the government’s campaign to present itself as the defender of “traditional values.”
Pope Francis died Monday at age 88, the Vatican announced. He passed away Monday morning (April 21) at his longtime residence at the Vatican, after battling double pneumonia and kidney failure following a 38-day hospitalization.
A Russian airstrike on Palm Sunday killed at least 34 people in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy in the deadliest attack of the conflict
Ukrainian Christians’ prayers for “a just and lasting peace” seem a distant hope, but God remains in control, said pastor Igor Bandura, vice president of the All-Ukrainian Union of Evangelical Christian-Baptists.
